Crossrail is the massively ambitious £15 Billion railway project in the south of England cutting new tunnels under London to connect towns in the east and west with the ever growing metropolis. For anyone with...

This thing is making rounds and we'd normally be too embarrassed to post what by all means must be a hoax, but for the fact that this souped-up bike helmet is a compelling example of design fiction. As Bike Snob pointed...

The young Danish designer Mikkel Mikkelsen first caught my attention when I saw a series of experiments he had created with wood, aluminum and acrylic/plexi. A dining table with the same honesty as the original...

As someone recently introduced to regular bicycling by Citi Bike, New York's bicycle share program, I love bike lanes. I just wish there were more of them; their relative Manhattan scarcity, and my unwillingness to...

"These great towns, temples and buildings rising from the water, all made of stone, seemed like an enchanted vision from the tale of Amadis. Indeed, some of our soldiers asked whether it was not all a dream. It was all...

Open Air Neighborhood (OAN) started off as a collaboration between KaosPilot Theis Reibke and architect Louise Heeboell, back in 2011. At first, the idea was simply to develop "Building Playgrounds" through co-creative...

For those of you who conduct interviews with a voice recorder, you know that the transcription is typically a slow step. If you're lucky, the interviewee speaks slowly or spends a long time thinking before answering,...

No Brazilian can be happy with their national team suffering two crushing defeats in a row, and now the country is dotted with brand-new stadiums that can only serve as a painful reminder. But now that the World Cup is...

The past week has seen a few noteworthy proposals and new developments for the future of waterways of Los Angeles and New York City. Here's the latest on Alt 20, the Big U (pictured above) and Plus Pool.As a lifelong...

Organizers Tim Hwang & Xiaowei WangBy Ben Valentine"Infrastructure is a text we can read about ourselves." Nikola Twilley of Edible Geography and Studio-X NYC said during the final remarks of MacroCity, the new Bay Area...

This New Yorker, like countless others, hasn't needed to use a payphone since Hurricane Sandy. But that will shortly change due an initiative by the City of New York, set in motion by former Mayor Bloomberg and now...

To be able to shower in a train station might not sound luxurious, but that's what I felt it was after dropping a few guilders at Amsterdam's Centraal Station to rinse the travel grit off and stow my backpack. Train...

Photos via Getty, which may or may not be working with Google on a 'special collection' of robot imagesThe jury's still out on the new remake of Robocop, which hit theaters yesterday, but it so happens that the stalwart...

I just came from a Dunkin' Donuts, where some idiot left their bag and an iPhone on top of it completely unattended. The iPhone was charging, plugged into an outlet in the wall near the pick-up queue, which was well...

"It nearly moved me to tears," a Ford executive once said of a Michael Santoro car design. "It's the best set of proportions I've ever seen on a sedan." In the early '90s Santoro was an upstart designer largely...

Yesterday it snowed in NYC, and as always happens, today you can see which parts of the street have been plowed and driven through and which parts are still snowbanks. And recently a movement has begun that claims we...

...They'll build the coolest urban park you've ever seen. The city may have lost the bid for the Summer 2012 Olympic games, but that didn't stop anyone from showing off just how cool the winter games could've been (or...

From Seinfeld to Friends, from Rhoda to The Odd Couple, NYC apartments are always depicetd on television as being ridiculously huge. Of course that's a far cry from reality, but at least one show has not only got the...

Fact: Hoboken, New Jersey is closer to Manhattan than most parts of Brooklyn. But few newcomers to New York, and even fewer tourists, ever cross the Hudson River to venture into the Garden State. Folks who have lived...

Strong relationships are based on multiple areas of shared interest, broadening the platform for connection and common understanding. Some interests pair naturally: humor and creativity, travel and gourmet cooking,...

Reporting by Chris BeattyOver 30 films were screened as a part of the 5th annual Architecture and Design Film Festival, which took place from October 16–20. This year's theme of 'Urbanism' encompassed a diverse...

In what is surely a sign that the world is getting smaller—or perhaps just an indication that urbanism is a hot topic these days—the last two months have seen Daan Roosegaarde bounce between stages on both...

[Editor's Note: This was adapted from a post on Synthesis Design + Architecture's PURETension charging concept for Volvo. It has been updated to include a related news item about HEVO Power's resonance charging...

I was a bit surprised to discover, at some point between my second and third excursions to the neighborhood of Dashilar, that the press kit for Beijing Design Week included a few photos documenting not the myriad pop-up...